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I am a KDE based Fluxbox user, I am face an issue that some of my gnome applications that have feature of allowing me to locate and open folder doesn’t really work as expected. Those gnome applications are gnome-do and picasa. When I open a folder from gnome-do or picasa, it will be open in firefox. Instead, I want it to open at konqueror.

I didn’t find any solution for that, due to the fact there are not much KDE based Fluxbox users around. But, at last I figure out a work around.

I realized that those gnome applications will call xdg-open when it is asked to open the folders. xdg-open is a bash script that will checks for global environment variable $DE and decide what file browser to execute. I have extracted the important part for reference: